X205 and XP

I'm sitting hear waiting for it to arrive, got the call from UPS that it will be here today between 7am and 7 p.m. LOL. I'm thinking of putting Xp on it instead of Vista. I need to know if the toshiba drivers will be XP compatible or not. I don't want to lose any of the function, such as the touch pads or finger print reader. Has anyone loaded Xp only on your machine?

 

The drivers are XP compatible I used the vista drivers with XP on my X205 and they worked, the only one you cannot use as XP does not support it is the intel robson drivers as XP does not support the turbocache controllers, also you will need a usb floppy to put the sata drives on it and have XP load them at install from there otherwise it will not see the hard drives. Good Luck and have fun.

 

What do you mean as far as a usb floppy?And how easy was it for you?

 

Well unless you want slip stream the sata drivers on the XP cd which I don't know how to do yet, you need to get a usb floppy drive if you don't have one then go here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng

and download the floppy driver creator tool located at the link I just gave you, put a blank floppy disk in your usb floppy drive and run the utility and it will extract the sata drivers on the floppy that you will need when the XP installation begins when you will need to press F6 key to let it know you have the floppy with the sata drivers and follow the instructions on the screen carefully. It was easy for me as I have done this many times in the past
with my home computers so I was used to doing it this way already.

 

Hey everyone! I'm at a total stand still.
Jesse helped me out with the SATA driver load and it worked great and I have XP in my X205-S9349 but, I have a couple of Device Manager driver problems that I can't seem to fix. I have gone to Toshiba and downloaded all of the VISTA drivers and other drivers from Intel and from nVidia but, none seem to take with XP when it comes to the video driver.
I was able to get everything else to work except for one that says ...
unknown and, of course the one for video.

Also, I went to Intel and got the chipset drivers from them but, when I try to run the video driver it tells me "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will exit."
Any other video drivers that I have tried "seem to go in" but do NOTHING to eliminate the driver problem and my video is semi slow.

I was able to fix the "BIOMETRIC COPROCESSOR", "MODEM", NETWORK CONTROLLER problems but, I am still having problems with loading the PCI MEMORY CONTROLLER and VIDEO CONTROLLER.
I am ready to wipe it all out and start again from a clean slate.
ugh!

Any suggestions? I saw where a couple of you are saying that you are running this pc on Windows XP. How did you fix the driver problems, especially in Video?

Hope the answer is out there.
Alan

 

I have bought a X205-Sli1 this week at Best Buy and I need to put XP on it.

I am using a USB floppy drive but I get stuck when it's trying to get the driver for "Intel Matrix Storage Manager".

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-021736.htm

I get stuck on Step 6 on the link above because it asks me to "Insert the disk labeled: Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver, into drive A:, Press ENTER when ready."

I press Enter and it doesn't do anything, as if it doesn't recognize that the floppy is in the drive.

Please help! Both of my hard drives are Hitachi. Thanks.

 

They took down my previous link, I think because they updated the drivers, you might want to try the following link to the floppy drivers creator:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/license_agr.aspx?url=/14849/eng/f6flpy32.zip&ProductID=2800&agr=Y&sType=&PrdMap=&DwnldId=14849&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All+Operating+Systems&lang=eng

Just accept the license agrement download the file and run it and it will create the floppy for you or after creating the floppy you can download nlite ver.1.35 and this program loacted here http://www.nliteos.com/index.html that walks you through making a XP cd so you can slip stream (add the sata drivers) to the bootable XP cd and that way you will never have to use a floppy. I had never created a slip streamed XP cd before and with nlite I had it made in 15 minutes with all the drivers I needed on the cd too.

 

Hi everyone !!

I´ve got Toshiba MK2546GSX hard disk... but I need SATA drivers to instal XP on a VAIO notebook. On Toshiba´s web pages don´t exist!!
Could you send it to me at phsnanyATyahooDOTcomDOTar ???
replace AT=@ - DOT= .
Thanx!

 

You should make a new thread in the Sony forum:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

The SATA drivers go by the chipset in the notebook, not the manufacturer of the hard drive. Likewise, the drivers can be downloaded from the chipset manufacturer.